Jurassic Park.

First edition of Crichton's gripping, bestselling scientific thriller, basis for the film directed by Steven Spielberg. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Michael Crichton, actor Sam Neill, and actress Laura Dern on the front free endpaper. Additionally signed and dated in the year of publication with an original drawing of the iconic dust jacket dinosaur by jacket designer Chip Kidd on the front free endpaper, again on the front jacket panel and on the rear flap. Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (Universal Pictures, 1993) — adapted from Michael Crichton's 1990 novel with a screenplay by Crichton and David Koepp — stands as one of the most significant achievements in the history of popular cinema, a film that permanently transformed the possibilities of visual effects technology while simultaneously delivering the kind of primal, kinetic storytelling that has always defined Spielberg's greatest work. At the center of its ensemble are two performances of particular distinction: Sir Sam Neill — the New Zealand-born actor appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to acting in 1991, and whose equally celebrated work that same year in Jane Campion's The Piano won the Palme d'Or at Cannes — as the skeptical paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant, bringing to the role a characteristic combination of dry reserve and genuine emotional depth; and Laura Dern, daughter of Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd and already an established critical favorite following her work with David Lynch, as paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler, whose intelligence, resourcefulness, and physical courage provided the film with much of its moral center. In 2018 the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant, and Neill, Dern, and Jeff Goldblum all reprised their roles in Jurassic World: Dominion (2022) — a reunion that confirmed the enduring hold these performances maintain on the popular imagination three decades after the film's release. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Rare and desirable signed by Crichton, Sam Neill, and Laura Dern and with an original illustration.